The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitying \Pit"y*ing\, a. Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word. -- Pit"y*ing*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a pitying manner.
WordNet
adv. in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him pityingly" [syn: compassionately, with compassion, with pity]
Usage examples of "pityingly".
Her whole life must have been a series of these agonies of indecision, I reflected pityingly, for where there is no inner will strong enough to repel, to strike a balance, there is a continual teetering before any slightest outward compulsion.
I should add, so you can get the complete picture of life in our clerk's room, that our old lady typist had left us and we had a new girl called Dianne who read quite extraordinarily lurid novels when she wasn't typing, spent a great deal of the day titivating in the loo, and joined Henry in looking pityingly at Albert as he struggled to adjust the petty cash.
North pityingly implored the stubborn mind to have mercy on the lacerated body, but without effect.